madness

madness is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ivy00johns/Skill-Madness. It costs 219 tokens per session (3,643 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A starting point that chooses the right coding-agent skill for a task and sends you to it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when you are unsure where to start, want to route a request to a workflow, or need to launch a planning, orchestration, or skill-discovery process.
Why use it?
It removes the need to know which of many skills to use. It also avoids using an elaborate multi-agent build process for simpler work.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the skill-madness plugin — 80 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it when you are unsure where to start, want to route a request to a workflow, or need to launch a planning, orchestration, or skill-discovery process.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ivy00johns/skill-madness/madness
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add ivy00johns/Skill-Madness --skill madness
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ivy00johns/Skill-Madness

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install skill-madness, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 80 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for madness

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for madness

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 219 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,643 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00219 $0.03643
Opus 5 $0.00110 $0.01821
Sonnet 5 $0.00044 $0.00729
Haiku 4.5 $0.00022 $0.00364

Measured yesterday against content hash 82afd844612e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

madness scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured yesterday.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/meta/madness/SKILL.md · 251 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 251 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Madness — the front door

This is the one entry point you can reach for when you don't want to think about which of the dozens of skills is the right one. You say what you're trying to do; madness figures out the correct starting skill, confirms if it's about to launch something heavy, and hands you off into it.

Why this exists

The toolkit under-triggers. With dozens of skills loaded every session, descriptions blur and the model often answers a request directly instead of reaching for the skill that would do it better. The usual workaround is to type orchestrator as a panic button — but orchestrator is a multi-agent build entry point (contracts, role agents, QA gates). On anything that isn't a parallel build it either spins up machinery you don't need or bounces you with "this isn't a multi-agent build." So the crutch works, but it's the wrong shape.

madness is the right-shaped crutch: a hair-trigger router whose only job is to land you in the correct front door and get out of the way. Type /madness, or ask "where do I even start with this," and it routes.

The prime directive: route, then hand off

Pick the right starting skill, launch it, and stop. madness is not a meta-orchestrator and must never become the work. It does not write the code, draft the plan, or run the loop itself — it identifies which skill does that and invokes it. The moment the target skill is running, madness is done. If you find yourself doing the task instead of dispatching it, you've drifted; route and hand off.

This is the deliberate counterpart to skill-explorer, which names a skill but will not invoke it. madness is the active version: it names and launches. See "madness vs skill-explorer" below for when to use which.

How a dispatch goes

  1. Get the intent. If invoked as /madness <task>, the argument is the intent. If invoked bare (/madness with nothing after it), or the intent is too vague to route confidently, show the menu (below) and ask — one question, then route. Don't guess at a heavy route from a one-word prompt.

Read the full file on GitHub · 251 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. yesterday Changed · +13 lines 82afd844612e
  2. 9d ago First seen · 238 lines · 219 tokens per session scan A 0532b6d76042

Subscribe to this mod's changes

madness is a skill published in the GitHub repository ivy00johns/Skill-Madness (11 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 219 tokens to every session and 3,643 once invoked, about $0.0011 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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